In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon together created the HARPY Speech Recognition System, the first voice recognition proof of concept capable of processing and ...

Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

There’s no denying the appeal of voice-controlled assistants such as Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. With a simple question or command, we can track down needed information, turn on a movie or music, ...